Minie Ball Pregnancy Summary
Minie Ball Pregnancy Ch.9
The book specifically mentions two women who fought during the war. The first one went by the name of Albert D.J. Cashire pretending to be a man, and there is a quote in the book on page 196 that reads, “[i]n handling a musket in battle, […] he was the equal of any in the company.” She fought in forty battles and was active in veterans groups for decades after the war. She was discovered to be a woman, and not a man, in the year 1911 while she was working as a handyman in Illinois. She was hit by a car, and in the hospital they found out that she was a woman, and she was sent to an insane asylum after that where she was forced to behave more femininely. Her real name was Jennie Hodgers.
The other woman was named Sarah Emma Edmonds who chose to reveal her gender in 1884. Jennie Hodges has a plaque that denotes her wartime name and her birth name, but in all there were around 400 women who fought in the war. …show more content…
The minie ball pregnancy is of course another odd story, which I really doubt happened. Even if a projectile passed through a man's reproductive organs then through a woman's and was fertile, the damage to the woman's body would probably have been so great that it would cause a miscarriage. Furthermore, the book said that the two went on to have more children. I would think that if a man were hit in the right location for such a story to be possible, he would not be able to have children any
The book specifically mentions two women who fought during the war. The first one went by the name of Albert D.J. Cashire pretending to be a man, and there is a quote in the book on page 196 that reads, “[i]n handling a musket in battle, […] he was the equal of any in the company.” She fought in forty battles and was active in veterans groups for decades after the war. She was discovered to be a woman, and not a man, in the year 1911 while she was working as a handyman in Illinois. She was hit by a car, and in the hospital they found out that she was a woman, and she was sent to an insane asylum after that where she was forced to behave more femininely. Her real name was Jennie Hodgers.
The other woman was named Sarah Emma Edmonds who chose to reveal her gender in 1884. Jennie Hodges has a plaque that denotes her wartime name and her birth name, but in all there were around 400 women who fought in the war. …show more content…
The minie ball pregnancy is of course another odd story, which I really doubt happened. Even if a projectile passed through a man's reproductive organs then through a woman's and was fertile, the damage to the woman's body would probably have been so great that it would cause a miscarriage. Furthermore, the book said that the two went on to have more children. I would think that if a man were hit in the right location for such a story to be possible, he would not be able to have children any